Showing posts with label Mercury 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercury 7. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Radical Islamic Terrorists or Astronauts?

By Jack Brummet
Image courtesy of NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

In 1960, during desert survival training, the Mercury 7 astronauts wore clothes made from parachutes (they also trained in the jungle—just in case the capsule landed off course).

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